Yee retains lead over Crowley in D7– barely

School board President Norman Yee is clinging onto a 33-vote lead over labor leader F.X. Crowley in the race for District Seven — but with up to 1,500 votes left to be counted, it won’t be settled anytime soon.

There are some 25,000 provisional ballots left to assess and tally in San Francisco, and between 1,300 and 1,500 of them are from District Seven, Elections Director John Arntz said Monday. But his office has until Dec. 4 to certify the election results, and District Seven ballots won’t get any special priority. That leaves the supervisor’s race in a district that stretches from west of Twin Peaks to the San Francisco Zoo still too close to call.

“I’m not announcing the winner today — I’m not saying that I will even do it tomorrow or Thursday. We won’t have the final tabulation until I certify the election results, and we have until December 4,” Arntz said. “We have to certify the entire election, not focus on one contest.”

Arntz said he hopes to complete the entire vote tally by Thanksgiving.

Yee has led in first-choice ballots since Tuesday’s election, but Crowley was ahead in the ranked-choice tally — which also includes second- and third- choice votes from the other seven candidates in the district contest — until Saturday. That’s when Yee pulled ahead by just a handful of votes.